that sounds very interesting. as is the topic.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm too tired to remember the name, but I saw a British TV > documentary last year that took old archive photos and subtly > animated elements in the background or foreground. So parts of a > photo behind or in front of people which were sky or grass or sea > would be replaced by video of the same. Was done very well - not > drawing too much attention to itself - so there'd be a slight shimmer > on the sea, or a slight blowing in the grass. Then sometimes a > slight Ken Burns effect was added, but with a 3D effect created by > splitting the foreground, middleground and background elements into > separate layers and animating them appropriately. Creating a slight > feeling of tracking towards the subject rather than just zooming. I > expect a slight grain/flicker was added to the image to make it seem > like a video GV rather than a still, too. People who weren't film- > savvy might not even have noticed. It definitely brought a little > life to old pictures and blurred the boundary between them and the > film/video clips they were intercut with. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > On 7-Dec-08, at 9:17 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: > > There's a clever section in "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea" > that > uses a physical set, tricky camerawork and speed control to deal with > archival photos in an historical background segment. I don't think it's > online though. > Brook > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
